PP Presentation

Anthony Portell

Trident Electrical Systems

PP Presentation 

RAID Has Fundamentally Changed Information Services 

What’s Wrong with Separate Disks? 

What is RAID?... the origin 

Why RAID? 

The Storage Environment In 1987 

Basic Concepts--Shadowing 

Basic Concepts--Striping 

Basic Concepts-- Striping for High Transfer Rate 

Basic Concepts-- Striping for High I/O Rate 

Basic Concepts-- Striping plus Shadowing 

Striping Shadowsets vs Shadowing Stripesets 

Basic Concepts-- Striping plus Parity 

RAID is also ...flavors and new names 

RAID is also ... 

RAID Levels Recognized by the RAID Advisory Board 

RAID 0+1 

A Note About Chunk Size 

The Storage Environment Has Changed 

Why Consider RAID Today ? 

Understand the Compromise 

RAID Trade-offs Cost and Availability 

RAID Performance Comparison VMS I/O Performance Summary (modeled) 

What are the solutions? 

What are the solutions? 

What are the solutions? 

What are the solutions? 

What are the solutions? 

These are the solutions mapped out 

RAID Implementations 

Host-Based RAID 

StorageWorks RAID Software for OpenVMS -- Benefits 

StorageWorks RAID Software for OpenVMS--Array Configurations 

StorageWorks RAID Software for OpenVMS--Array Configurations 

Controller-Based RAID 

Which RAID is best? It all depends... 

Examples of RAID Applications 

Summary 


 


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